Accumulating Light - Night Sky / Conservatory / White Room

Satoshi Ootsuka / Youichi Sano

Exhibition Dates: January 25 (Thursday) to February 12 (Monday, Holiday)
Opening Party: January 27 (Saturday) from 18:00 to 20:00

"The landscape" naturally transforms over time.

This exhibition is an attempt to explore the sensory world, following the time axis accompanied by light, based on optical inquiry. The world that moves with the shifting of light also offers new insights to us living in today's chaotic situation.

Satoshi Otsuka presents works formed from an optical perspective, such as photographs and videos, as identical yet different images. In this exhibition, he will showcase the series, which turns errors in the RAW data development process of camera-captured images into artworks, and , which structurally captures different approaches of light from inside and outside, constantly chasing the light in the exhibition space. Also, as a new work, , which transforms the space with a combination of photographs mounted on identical rulers, will be introduced.
On the other hand, Yoichi Sano, who handles photographic works with pinhole cameras, starting from the idea of "photography as a clue to perceiving the world." He has turned into artworks those shot in the former tropical bird greenhouse in Inokashira Natural Cultural Park (Kichijoji). For the production, he employs a very simple method of capturing the appearance of light on film using a pinhole camera with a slightly larger pinhole. The echoing screen of light seems to pick up non-visual information (such as air, temperature, and humidity) that arises in the space.

We would be delighted if you take this opportunity to view the continuous transformation of space captured in the full light and the delicate gestures of light.